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Föllakzoid grows via depuration, aiming with each record to fill longer spaces of time with fewer and fewer elements. The creative perspective of the band has always been about unlearning the narrative and musical knowledge that shape the physical and digital formats and conceptions available, both visually and musically in order to make a time-space metric structure that dissolves both the author and the narrative paradigms. Today they’ve unveiled the last quarter – “IIII” – of their forthcoming, four-part record ‘I‘ which sees its release on Sacred Bones August 1.
LISTEN “IIII” HERE
Föllakzoid‘s journey began 10 years ago as a trance experience between childhood friends Domingae and Diego from Santiago, Chile. Heavily informed by the heritage of the ancient music of the Andes, the band has learned to integrate their origins with contemporary sounds and technologies of our times, creating a rich yet minimal electronic-organic atmosphere.
Unlike past Föllakzoid records that were done in single takes with the full band, this record took three months to construct out of more than 60 separate stems – guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers, and vocals, all recorded in isolation. Producer Atom TM, who was not present for recording, was then asked to re-organize the four sequences of stems without any length, structural restrictions or guidelines. Those sequences ultimately became the four long tracks that appear on ‘I‘.
The result of this was a set of songs where neither the band’s, nor the producer’s, structural vision primarily shaped the metric or tonal space shifts, but where both were still subliminally present in each of the parts that form the structure and the frequency modulations that guide them.
Föllakzoid
‘I’
Sacred Bones
August 1, 2019
Pre-order Here
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IIII
Föllakzoid Live Dates:
09/01: Brighton, UK – Patterns
09/02: Birmingham, UK – Hare and Hounds
09/03: Glasgow, UK – Broadcast
09/04: Leeds, UK- Brudenell social club
09/05: Manchester, UK – White Hotel
09/06: Sheffield, UK – Picture house social
09/07: London, UK – Dingwalls In
09/08: Brussels, BE – Botanique
09/09: Eindhoven, NL – Effenaar
09/10: Aachen, DE – MusikBunker
09/11: Malmo, SE – Plan B
09/13: Aalborg, DK – Studenterhuset
09/14: Gothenburg, SE – Musikens Hus
09/15: Stockholm, SE – Hus 7
09/17: Helsinki, FI – Kuudes Linja
09/20: Tallin, EE – Von Krahl
09/22: Warsaw, PL -Poglos
09/23: Krakow, PL – Alchemia
09/24: Brno, CZ – Kabinet Muz
09/25: Wien, AT – Chelsea
09/26: Leipzig, DE – Ut Connewitz
09/27: Berlin, DE – Bi Nuu
09/28: Hannover, DE – Cafe Glocksee
10/08: Bratislava, SK – Fuga
10/09: Zagreb, HR – Vintage Industrial Bar
10/12: Belgrade, RS – Drugstore
10/14: Timisoara, RO – Reflektor
10/16: Bucarest, RO – Control Club
10/17: Sofia, BG – Mixtape 5
10/18: Istanbul, TR – Salon IKSV
10/19: Thessaloniki, GR – Eight Ball
10/21: Skopje, MK – MKC
10/22: Larissa, GR – Stage
10/23: Athens, GR – The Temple
10/25: Ravenna, IT – Bronson
10/26: Verona, IT – Kroen
10/29: Paris, FR – Le Petit Bain
10/30: Zurich, CH – Zukunft
11/08: Kortrijk, BE – Sonic City
11/10: Utrecht, NL LGW? Festival
11/11: Nijmegen, NL – Doornroosje
Author: RJ Frometa
Head Honcho, Editor in Chief and writer here on VENTS. I don't like walking on the beach, but I love playing the guitar and geeking out about music. I am also a movie maniac and 6 hours sleeper.
